Professor Musa Mateev

The documentary film “Professor Musa Mateev” tells about the life and career of the Kyrgyz plastic surgeon - Musa Mateev, known for his work all over the world. The film tells in detail about his development of the “flap in flap” method, which is widely used in modern plastic and reconstructive surgery. Thanks to this technique, Professor Musa Mateev was able to help more than 15 thousand patients, adults and children, in particular, indigent people. With a simple method, he solved very difficult cases of patients, using a “flap in flap” concept to close large soft tissue defects. This technique is much cheaper than other methods and rehabilitation is much faster. This very method being technically simple and straightforward but reliable allows to help a large number of children and adults with cicatricial deformities around the world, both in well equipped modern operating room and eventually in the field hospital, in rural areas of developing countries. This was the unique achievement of Musa Mateev, which later was called abroad as “Mateev’s method”.

Also, the film tells of his contribution to the development of domestic microsurgery, humanitarian projects he constantly managed to organize to help patients. In addition, the film discloses other methods Professor Musa Mateev used and developed. There were resident students coming to Professor Mateev from all over the world to learn about these methods, moreover, he was invited to teach at universities abroad. Part of the film will be dedicated to the International Congress of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in memory of Professor Musa Mateev, which was held in August, 2022 in Issyk-Kul lake, Kyrgyzstan.